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Announcements

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project, including general announcements, development announcements and Events.

Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam

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FUDCon Tempe update -- includes lodging info!

Paul W. Frields on Thu Sep 9 13:34:12 UTC 2010 announced,

"Here's an update on the FUDCon in Tempe, AZ coming January 29-31,2011.

LODGING:

The FUDCon Tempe planning group has established a group rate at the Marriott Courtyard Tempe Downtown. The rate for single or double occupancy is $99/night, and the core dates for this rate are the nights of January 28-30. However, a significant number of dates surrounding these nights have been reserved, and more should be available if needed.

All attendees are responsible for making their own hotel reservations. The deadline for reserving rooms is November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05). A credit card is required for your reservation, and at check-in to cover incidentals.

If you've been approved for a lodging subsidy, typically 50% of projected room costs, you should also find a roommate who can cover the other half. (It's often easiest to find someone else who's getting a lodging subsidy, and room with them.) Please mark your room sharing arrangements on the wiki: just put your roommate's name in the "Roomshare" column.

To make hotel reservations, use the handy URL provided on the wiki:

Dates are pre-filled using this link, but you can adjust them as necessary. If you have any problems, make your reservation for the provided dates, and call the hotel at the phone number provided on the wiki to make adjustments.

PRE-REGISTRATION:

It's now open on the main FUDCon wiki page:

Remember that although you're not required to pre-register, when you do pre-register for the event you're eligible to receive a special gift at the sign-in desk at FUDCon. There will probably be a limit to the number of people we can pre-register, so sign up today.

But don't worry -- if you miss pre-registration, remember that FUDCon as always is *free and open* for anyone to attend. We are happy to have anyone attend, learn, participate, and contribute. Please encourage your friends, co-workers, and colleagues to attend!

SUBSIDIES:

It's not too late to request a travel subsidy, although funding is going fast. Remember, marking the wiki is not sufficient to get a subsidy. You need to follow the instructions here:

TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND HACKFESTS:

• NOW* is the time to start adding content information. Many people use the preview information of content to decide whether to attend the event. Help us show the community how much great information there is at a FUDCon event! Simply add your information to the FUDCon wiki. Remember, everyone is welcome to deliver content at FUDCon. Add your topics here:

HACK SUITE:

The organizers have reserved a separate king suite at the conference hotel for around the clock hacking. We know there are a few intrepid souls who bid a fond farewell to sleep during these events to fit in more keyboard time. We hope you'll feel free to make use of the hack suite for this purpose.

INTERNATIONAL VISITORS:

If you require any documentation for entry, such as a passport or visa, please make those arrangements as soon as possible. If you require a letter of invitation or any other paperwork from the organizers, please file a ticket in the FUDCon Planning issue tracker:

HELP US PLAN AND PUBLICIZE:

We aim to make the planning process of FUDCon as easy to participate in as possible. Edit the wiki pages and let us know what you would like to see, join the discussion list at, and join us every Monday at 3:00pm US Eastern (currently 1900 UTC) in IRC Freenode at #fudcon-planning for FUDCon planning meetings.

You can help publicize FUDCon on Identi.ca and Twitter with the hashtag #fudcon, and feel free to tag other relevant groups thoughtfully. Thanks for helping!"

Board IRC Meeting :: Fri 2010-09-10 at UTC 18:00 in #fedora-board-meeting

Jared K. Smith on Fri Sep 10 14:58:59 UTC 2010 announced,

"The Fedora Board is holding an IRC meeting today in #fedora-board-meeting at UTC 18:00 (2:00pm EDT, 11:00am PDT).

We'll follow the same protocol as we did for the previous two IRC meetings, as is explain here:. The entire meeting will be dedicated to Questions and Answers. We're going to limit any single question to eight minutes, so that we can cover as many questions as possible in the 60 minutes we have available. In the interest of rapid responses, the Board members will be encouraged to respond at will to questions, as we did in the previous meeting."

Fedora Development News

The fedora development news list is intended to be a low traffic announce-only list for Fedora development.

• Acceptable Types of Announcements

- Policy or process changes that affect developers. - Infrastructure changes that affect developers. - Tools changes that affect developers. - Schedule changes - Freeze reminders

• Unacceptable Types of Announcements

- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule) - Discussion - Anything else not mentioned above

Reminder: Rebuild all translated packages

Noriko on Wed Sep 8 03:22:37 UTC 2010 announced,

"Dear package maintainers

This is kind reminder. It was software translation deadline on 2010-09-07, and many languages translation have been updated or completed 100%. Please make sure latest translation are picked up for rebuilding packages. It is expected to rebuild all translated packages between 2010-09-07 and 2010-09-14. This ensures that all translation work will be included in Beta and GA releases.

Thank you!"

sip-4.11.x (and PyQt stack) coming to rawhide

Rex Dieter on Wed Sep 8 19:41:29 UTC 2010 announced,

"Another sip, another abi bump, affected pkgs include:

• repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires 'sip-api(7)'
• PyKDE-0:3.16.6-4.fc14
• PyKDE4-0:4.5.1-1.fc15
• PyQt-0:3.18.1-7.fc14
• PyQt4-0:4.7.4-2.fc14
• PyQwt-0:5.2.0-8.fc14
• avogadro-libs-0:1.0.1-6.fc15
• qedje-python-0:0.4.0-7.fc14
• qgis-python-0:1.5.0-3.fc15
• qscintilla-python-0:2.4.4-2.fc14
• qzion-python-0:0.4.0-9.fc14
• sems-0:1.2.1-6.fc15

I'll hopefully start in on rebuilding all this sometime tomorrow (Thu Sep 9)"

Unresolved Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Bugs

John Poelstra on Thu Sep 9 04:38:34 UTC 2010 announced,

"It's that time again! The Fedora 14 Release Candidate is scheduled for creation one week from this Thursday on 2010-09-16. That task cannot be completed if we have open blocker bugs (listed below). The sooner we address these bugs the greater the likelihood we have of having time to fix last minute bugs closer to the RC and ship the Fedora 14 Beta one time.

If you are the owner of any of the bugs listed below, your prompt attention and feedback with your assessment and plans in the bugzilla comments would be most helpful.

629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') ::

623524 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Err during filesystem check after upgrading bootloader ::

628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau ::

608992 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen ::

630781 :: NEW :: systemd :: Kernel Maintainer List :: systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection ::

630490 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: disabled units still get bus activated ::

631620 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: systemd is not starting haldaemon for KDE ::

628241 :: NEW :: firstboot :: Martin Gracik :: Fedora 14 Alpha, post reboot installation steps not working ::

621027 :: NEW :: fedora-logos :: Tom "spot" Callaway :: Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 ::

627014 :: ASSIGNED :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: systemd provided telinit does not work as advertised :: "

Fedora 14 Beta Blocker Meeting :: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT)

John Poelstra on Fri Sep 10 00:19:02 UTC 2010 announced,

"When: Friday, 2010-09-10 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EDT) Where: #fedora-bugzappers on irc.freenode.net

Without these bugs fixed we can't compose the Fedora 14 Beta Release Candidate on 2010-09-16.

We'll be discussing these bugs to determine if they meet the criteria, should stay on the list, and are getting the attention they need:

629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') ::

628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau ::

608992 :: NEW :: livecd-tools :: David Huff :: Add "Boot system with basic video driver" option at the initial screen ::

630781 :: NEW :: systemd :: Kernel Maintainer List :: systemd hangs on "Clocksource tsc unstable" error and causes the system to freeze after cpu-scaling detection ::

630490 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: disabled units still get bus activated ::

631620 :: NEW :: systemd :: Lennart Poettering :: ordering cycles exist (+ breaking them deletes wrong services) ::

621027 :: NEW :: fedora-logos :: Tom "spot" Callaway :: Graphical screen in anaconda shows F-13 :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621027

If you are the owner of any of these bugs, kindly update the comments with your feedback as to whether you believe it is a blocker and what your plans for fixing the bug are.

Do you have an issue you believe should be fixed before the Fedora 14 Beta ships? Please consider the following criteria when escalating an issue: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Beta_Release_Criteria

John

The command used to generate the list of bugs above is: $ bugzilla query --blocked=611991 \

--bug_status=NEW,ASSIGNED,NEEDINFO,ON_DEV,MODIFIED,POST,ON_QA,FAILS_QA,PASSES_QA,REOPENED,VERIFIED,RELEASE_PENDING \

    --outputformat="%{bug_id} :: %{bug_status} :: %{component} :: 

%{assigned_to} :: %{summary} :: %{url}"

NOTE: It this command doesn't work on Fedora 14."

Today is the LAST DAY to fix bugs for the Fedora 14 Beta

John Poelstra on Wed Sep 15 16:32:45 UTC 2010 announced,

"The Fedora 14 Beta RC compose is scheduled for tomorrow.

ALL open bugs on Fedora 14 Blocker list (http://bit.ly/cZKo9K) MUST BE FIXED TODAY or we risk delaying the release. In other words we are very short on time to address the remaining bugs.

Here is the current state of things based on the comments in each bug:

629719 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Anaconda Maintenance Team :: FormatCreateError: ('invalid device specification', '/dev/md127p3') :: Need to make a decision as to whether this bug should remain a blocker based on testing feedback

634205 :: NEW :: bluez :: Bastien Nocera :: Bluetooth always disabled on startup. :: New bug. Need assessment and a fix (if applicable) from maintainer ASAP

628239 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Fedora 14 Alpha "reduced graphics" creates vesa-using xorg.conf but doesn't blacklist nouveau :: Need additional confirmation that this bug still exists, but most likely will be dropped.

633234 :: NEW :: anaconda :: Brian C. Lane :: Previous grub entry is not overwritten after upgrade with creating new bootloader :: Being researched by anacconda team. Could someone from the anaconda team add a current status to the comments of the bug?

633315 :: NEW :: NetworkManager :: Dan Williams :: Connections not editable in nm-c-e in anaconda :: New bug. Need assessment and a fix (if applicable) from maintainer ASAP

632510 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Chris Lumens :: Installer exited abnormally when starting network in rescue mode :: Need update submitted to Bodhi ASAP so this bug can change to ON_QA

632489 :: MODIFIED :: anaconda :: Radek Vykydal :: Fail to read package metadata after specifying repo= :: Need update submitted to Bodhi ASAP so this bug can change to ON_QA"

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